Gas Orders Confirmation (No.2) Act 1898
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1898 c. xcviii |
| Year | 1898 |
f61
&
62 VICT.] Gas
Orders
Gmfirmatim
{No.
2) [Oh. XCViii.]
L Act, 1898.
CHAPTER xcviii.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the
A..D.
1898.
Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works
Facilities Act 1870 relating to Cannock Gas Colwall
Gas Crossgates Halton and Seacroft Gas and Slough
Gas.
[25th July 1898.]
W
HEREAS under the authority o£ the Gas and Water Works
33 &
34 Vict.
Facilities Act 1870 the Board of Trade have made the several c-70-
Provisional Orders set out in the schedule to this Act annexed;
And whereas a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade
under the authority of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870
is not of any validity or force whatever until the confirmation thereof
by Act of Parliament:
And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisional Orders
made by the Board of Trade under the authority of the said Act
and set out in the schedule to this Act annexed be confirmed by
Act of Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and
by the authority of the same as follows :—
1.
This Act may be cited as the Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Short title.
Act 1898.
2.
The several Orders as amended and set out in the schedule to Confirmation
this Act shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and all the J^S"
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provisions thereof in manner and form as they are set out in the
said schedule shall from and after the passing of this Act have full
validity and effect.
3.
The Undertakers mentioned in the said Orders shall not under
Special
pro-
the powers of this Act or of the said Orders purchase or acquire
visions as
to
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m any city borough or urban district or in any parish or part labouring
[Price 2s. 6d.] A 1 class-
[Oh. XCViii.] Gas
Orders Confirmation
(No. 2) [61 & 62
VICT.]
Act,l898.
A.D.
1898.
of a parish not being within an urban district ten or more houses
— which on the fifteenth day of December last were occupied either
wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring class as
tenants or lodgers or except with the consent of the Local Govern-
ment Board ten or more houses which were not so occupied on
the said fifteenth day of December but have been or shall be
subsequently so occupied.
For the purposes of this section the expression " labouring class "
includes mechanics artisans labourers and others working for
wages hawkers costermongers persons not working for wages but
working at some trade or handicraft without employing others
except members of their own family and persons other than
domestic servants whose income does not exceed an average of
thirty shillings a week and the families of any of such persons
who may be residing with them.
SCHEDULE.
LIST OF ORDERS.
CANNOCK GAS.—Order empowering the Cannock Hednesford and District
Gas Company Limited to maintain and continue Gasworks and to make
and supply Gas within the parish of Cannock the parish of Cheslyn Hay
and the parish or township of Great Wyrley all in the county of Stafford.
COLWALL GAS.—Order empowering the Colwall Gas Company Limited to
maintain and continue Gasworks and to manufacture and supply Gas
within the parishes of Colwall and Coddington in the county of Hereford.
CEOSSGATES HALTON AND SEACKOPT GAS.—Order empowering the Cross-
gates Halton and Seacroft Gas Company Limited to maintain and continue
Gasworks to manufacture and supply Gas in the parish of Seacroft
the hamlets of Halton Colton Whitkirk Crossgates Manston Stanks and
Scholes in the West Riding of the county of York.
SLOUGH GAS.—Order empowering the Slough Gas and Coke Company to
construct aud maintain additional Works for the manufacture and storage
of Gas and Residual Products and for other purposes.
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[61 &
52
VICT.]
Gas Orders Confirmation
(No.
2) [Oh. XCViii]
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,:M>1898.
CANNOGK GAS. A.B.1898.
Order empowering the Gannock Sednesford and District Gas Cannock.
Company Limited to maintain and continue Gasworks and to
make and supply Gas within the parish of Cannock the parish
of Cheslyn Say and the parish or township of Great Wyrley
all in the county of Stafford.
1.
This Order may be cited as the Cannock Gas Order 1898. Short title.
2.
This Order shall come into force and have effect upon the day when the Commence-
Act confirming this Order is passed which date is in this Order referred to as
"
the commencement of this Order."
ment
of Order.
3.
The provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts (except with respect to the Incorporation
purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement and with respect to ° c *
the entry upon lands by the promoters of the undertaking) of the Gasworks
Clauses Act 1847 and of the Gasworks Clauses Act 1871 are hereby
incorporated with this Order (except where the same are expressly varied
by this Order) and the provisions of the said Gasworks Clauses Acts shall
apply as well to the mains pipes and works of the Undertakers laid down or
constructed before the commencement of this Order and situate within the
limits of supply as defined by this Order as to any mains or works which
may be laid down or constructed under the authority of this Order Provided
always that for the purposes of incorporation with this Order section thirty-five
of the Gasworks Clauses Act 1847 shall be read and construed as if the same
right of petitioning which is thereby conferred upon two gas ratepayers had
been conferred upon the Cannock Urban District Council and that it shall be
lawful for the Court upon any such petition of the Cannock Urban District
Council to make such order as to the payment of the costs of and incident
thereto as to the Court may seem fit.
4.
In this Order the expression " the prescribed rates" means the rates of Interpretation.
dividend authorised by this Order on the capital of the Undertakers or such
rates as reduced or increased in accordance with the provisions of this Order
and the several words terms and expressions to which by any Act in whole or
in part incorporated with this Order or by the Gas and Wetter Works
Facilities Act 1870 meanings are assigned have the same respective meanings
and in the construction of this Order or of any such Act for the purposes of
this Order the expression " the undertaking " shall include the gasworks and
works connected therewith by this Order authorised to be maintained and
continued.
5.
The limits within which the provisions of this Order shall be in force and Limits
of
have effect (in this Order referred to as " the limits of supply ") shall be the
parish of Cannock the parish of Cheslyn Hay and the parish or township of
Great Wyrley all in the county of Stafford.
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